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We’ve moved!

May 13, 2008 by Alison

Hey kids, we’ve grown up & moved out of Mom & Dad’s. We have to do our own updates and everything now! Come visit at http://www.spinstah.net/blog.

For the lazy, here’s the new RSS feed you’ll want to grab.

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links for 2008-05-12

May 12, 2008 by Alison

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Online Marketing Webinar

May 8, 2008 by Alison

So, I just listened to a free online webinar through OPAL — Online Marketing for Libraries, by Sarah Houghon-Jan, the Librarian in Black. (Here’s a link to the archive page this is listed on. I can’t figure out if there’s a way to link directly to the entry without just linking to the files, not that I tried very hard. Yes, the files are already posted. OPAL is fast.)

This was really cool. I’ve never heard Sarah speak before, and I thought it was a great presentation — and that’s saying a lot since I couldn’t see her, and we were stuck just looking at PowerPoints (though it was a good PP, as these things go!). The gist of it is that she covers a ton of ways, many free, that you can build your online presence aside from your library website. This includes things like blogging and social networking sites. But she also had a ton of great tips: making Wikipedia page for your library, or adding a link to your library from appropriate pages on Wikipedia (like a city or college entry, for example). Where do you come up in search engine results? Do all the various domains your users might type in to get to you point to your website? Are you listed in places like Google Maps and Library Thing Local? What about websites listing free WiFi hotspots? (Well, if your WiFi is free and not password-protected.) Continue Reading »

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links for 2008-05-07

May 7, 2008 by Alison

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links for 2008-05-05

May 5, 2008 by Alison

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The month in books: April

May 5, 2008 by Alison

Here’s what I completed in April. My take on each of these can be found on Goodreads.com (I can’t link directly to my review for a given book, so I haven’t bothered to link at all. But if you’re on Goodreads, friend me and you can see them.)

  • Cathy’s Book: If Found Call (650) 266-8233, Sean Stewart
  • Beginner’s Greek, James Collins
  • The End of Poverty, Jeffrey D. Sachs
  • Austenland, Shannon Hale
  • Book Lust, Nancy Pearl
  • The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
  • Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen
  • Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier
  • D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself, Ellen Lupton
  • Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende

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Four months later . . .

May 5, 2008 by Alison

(This is a bit of a rant, and also may be too much information for those who don’t care to know about Girl Things. Consider yourself warned.)

. . . I think I have finally resolved the billing problems I was having with Planned Parenthood. I was really excited in July when I went to the clinic in Davis Square to get my birth control. They give you a years’ worth up front and then bill you each month, cool right? But there was a hitch — I left without the 13 months’ worth I should have received — they didn’t have enough that would still be within the expiration date. I was told I could go back at any time and pick the rest of it up. When I went back before moving, they still didn’t have enough. They assured me that it wouldn’t be a problem to contact the billing office and stop the contract, and gave me the contact info. Continue Reading »

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links for 2008-05-02

May 2, 2008 by Alison

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links for 2008-04-26

April 26, 2008 by Alison

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links for 2008-04-25

April 25, 2008 by Alison

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